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XLIB FUNCTIONS                        XmbTextPerCharExtents(3x11)



NAME
     XmbTextPerCharExtents, XwcTextPerCharExtents,
     Xutf8TextPerCharExtents - obtain per-character information
     for a text string

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]

     Status XmbTextPerCharExtents(XFontSet font_set, char
          *string, int num_bytes, XRectangle *ink_array_return,
          XRectangle *logical_array_return, int array_size, int
          *num_chars_return, XRectangle *overall_ink_return,
          XRectangle *overall_logical_return);

     Status XwcTextPerCharExtents(XFontSet font_set, wchar_t
          *string, int num_wchars, XRectangle *ink_array_return,
          XRectangle *logical_array_return, int array_size, int
          *num_chars_return, XRectangle *overall_ink_return,
          XRectangle *overall_logical_return);

     Status Xutf8TextPerCharExtents(XFontSet font_set, char
          *string, int num_bytes, XRectangle *ink_array_return,
          XRectangle *logical_array_return, int array_size, int
          *num_chars_return, XRectangle *overall_ink_return,
          XRectangle *overall_logical_return);

ARGUMENTS
     array_size
               Specifies the size of ink_array_return and
               logical_array_return.  The caller must pass in
               arrays of this size.

     font_set  Specifies the font set.

     ink_array_return
               Returns the ink dimensions for each character.

     logical_array_return
               Returns the logical dimensions for each character.

     num_bytes Specifies the number of bytes in the string argu-
               ment.

     num_chars_return
               Returns the number of characters in the string
               argument.

     num_wchars
               Specifies the number of characters in the string
               argument.

     overall_ink_return



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XLIB FUNCTIONS                        XmbTextPerCharExtents(3x11)



               Returns the overall ink extents of the entire
               string.

     overall_logical_return
               Returns the overall logical extents of the entire
               string.

     string    Specifies the character string.

DESCRIPTION
     The XmbTextPerCharExtents, XwcTextPerCharExtents and
     Xutf8TextPerCharExtents functions return the text dimensions
     of each character of the specified text, using the fonts
     loaded for the specified font set.  Each successive element
     of ink_array_return and logical_array_return is set to the
     successive character's drawn metrics, relative to the draw-
     ing origin of the string and one rectangle for each charac-
     ter in the supplied text string.  The number of elements of
     ink_array_return and logical_array_return that have been set
     is returned to num_chars_return.

     Each element of ink_array_return is set to the bounding box
     of the corresponding character's drawn foreground color.
     Each element of logical_array_return is set to the bounding
     box that provides minimum spacing to other graphical
     features for the corresponding character.  Other graphical
     features should not intersect any of the
     logical_array_return rectangles.

     Note that an XRectangle represents the effective drawing
     dimensions of the character, regardless of the number of
     font glyphs that are used to draw the character or the
     direction in which the character is drawn.  If multiple
     characters map to a single character glyph, the dimensions
     of all the XRectangles of those characters are the same.

     When the XFontSet has missing charsets, metrics for each
     unavailable character are taken from the default string
     returned by XCreateFontSet so that the metrics represent the
     text as it will actually be drawn.  The behavior for an
     invalid codepoint is undefined.

     If the array_size is too small for the number of characters
     in the supplied text, the functions return zero and
     num_chars_return is set to the number of rectangles
     required.  Otherwise, the functions return a nonzero value.

     If the overall_ink_return or overall_logical_return argument
     is non-NULL, XmbTextPerCharExtents, XwcTextPerCharExtents
     and Xutf8TextPerCharExtents return the maximum extent of the
     string's metrics to overall_ink_return or
     overall_logical_return, as returned by XmbTextExtents,



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XLIB FUNCTIONS                        XmbTextPerCharExtents(3x11)



     XwcTextExtents or Xutf8TextExtents.

     The function Xutf8TextPerCharExtents is an extension intro-
     duced by The XFree86 Project, Inc. in their 4.0.2 release.
     Its presence is indicated by the macro X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING.

SEE ALSO
     XmbTextEscapement(3x11), XmbTextExtents(3x11) Xlib - C
     Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|































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